Originally posted by another user
This is just a bug and nothing new to black ops. Its caused by a phenomena where you called in your chopper gunner at the exact instance of a lag spike.
This is the glitch where on the codblackops websites patch notes they state improve the glitch where players arent given full control of gunships and chopper gunners under certain circumstances.
It was caused by lag regardless of what you think.
Well that's understandable. They were saying I was lagging...which wasn't the case. Still, it's funny.